Chair-seat



(No Model.)

0. OLOSTERMAN.

CHAIR SEAT.

No. 316,333. I Patented Apr. 21, 1885.

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CHARLES OLOSTERMAN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CHAIR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,333, dated April 21, 1885.

Application filed July 26, 1884. (No model.)

To. all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES OLOSTERMAN, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chair-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful composite cushioned chairseat, hereinafter particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top view of a seat-frame with attached sheetmetal bottom. Fig. 2 is a top view of my separate frame, shape, or skeleton. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3. Fig. 4 is a top view of the completed seat, a portion of the cover being removed. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5.

A may represent a customary or any suitable open wooden frame of a chair-seat. The central opening, a, of this frame is bridged over by a bottom, B, of sheet metal (of slightly less dimension than said frame A) firmly tacked or nailed at its margin to the top of said frame.

In order to impart to and to maintain in the cushion the desired contour, I provide a separate open frame, shape, or skeleton, O, which may be either of wood or of metal, but which is preferably of wood. This skeleton has beveled or rounded edges 0, and rests upon the bottom B.

The seat-cover D, of any suitable fabric or material-su ch as leather,horse-hai r, enameled cloth, or plushbein g partially tacked in place upon the frame A, the skeleton G is introduced under said cover D and the space between the bottom B and skeleton 0 below, and the cover D above is stuffed with any desired padding E-such as curled hair, wool, or excelsior. The remaining edge of the cover D, being then tacked fast to the frame A, is pro-. tected and concealed by a gimp or other suitable binding, F, being tacked down upon it and to the said frame A.

A convenient and elegant cushioned chairseat is thus produced of great durability and at comparatively little cost.

I claim as a new and useful article of manufacture'- 1. The composite chair-seat consisting of a chair-seat frame, A, attached sheet-metal bottom B, loosely inserted rigid separate skeleton frame 0, cover D, padding E, and binding F, all combined substantially as set forth.

2. In a chair-seat, the combination, with open-seat frame A, having tacked to it so as to bridge its opening a sheet-metal bottom, B, of less dimensions, padding E, and cover D, of the loosely-inserted rigid separate open frame or skeleton O, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the seat-frame A, superimposed bottom B, secured thereto, cover VD, fastened over the bottom to the frame, skeleton frame 0, introduced between the cover and bottom, padding E, stuffed into the space between the cover and bottom and within the skeleton, and binding F, secured to the seat- CHARLES OLOSTERMAN. Attest:

GEORGE H. KNIGHT, CHAS. E. PRIOR. 

